Breaking: Suspension Of Twitter: SERAP To Sue FG

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has threatened to drag the federal government court over the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria.

The Publisher Nigeria reports that the body stated that Nigerians have the right to freedom of information and access information online.

SERAP stated this in a tweet on its official Twitter handle, on Friday…see the tweet below;

BREAKING: We’re suing Nigerian authorities over their ILLEGAL indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria.

Nigerians have a right to freedom of expression and access to information including online, and we plan to fight to keep it that way.

@NigeriaGov, we’ll see you in court.

Details later…